Past Year - 2 Mark Questions
Last updated at August 8, 2026 by Teachoo
Answer:
def count_alpha():
c=0
f=open("Notes.txt",'r')
l=f.readlines()
for line in l:
for word in line:
for char in word:
if char.isalpha():
c=c+1
print("Number of alphabets = "+str(c))
f.close()
Transcript
Question 6 Write a function to count the number of alphabets present in a text file “NOTES.txt”. declaring function count_alpha( ) reading all the lines in the text file and assigning it to ‘l’ Iterating through each line in ‘l’ and assigning it to ‘line’ Iterating through each character in a word and assigning it to ‘char’ If a character is an alphabet, then increase the value of ‘c’ by 1 Invoking function count_alpha( ) Assigning a variable ‘c’ with value 0 Opening the text file in read mode and assigning it to file_object ‘f’ Iterating through each word in a line and assigning it to ‘word’ Checking if a character is an alphabet Prints the number of alphabets Closing the file Output
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